Agecroft Partners has been named the top hedge fund marketing firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards for the seventh time in right eight years. This latest honour is the firm’s 35th industry award since 2009.
Agecroft Partners is a hedge fund consulting and marketing firm that distinguishes itself and adds value to investors globally in three ways.
Agecroft applies an institutional due diligence process to narrow the broad universe of funds down to a select few high quality funds. The many evaluation factors they focus on include a firm’s institutional infrastructure, high quality investment teams, clearly defined investment processes, appropriate risk controls, strong historical performances and high quality service providers.
Three of Agecroft’s hedge fund clients made the Barron’s 2017 list of the top 100 highest performing hedge funds, while two of its clients also won awards at Hedgeweek’s 2018 global award ceremonies event last week as the top fund in their strategy.
Agecroft’s contact with over 2,000 hedge fund investors each month has given the firm extensive insight into trends in the industry. From these interactions, they gather feedback on which strategies investors believe are best positioned to perform well based on current market valuations and economic forecasts. They gather market feedback on what is happening to hedge fund terms, which strategies are gaining and losing the most money, which type of investors are increasing or decreasing their allocation to hedge funds and what is happening on the macro level to the industry. Agecroft leverages this information to frequently write and publish white papers highlighting the issues they see as timely and relevant to the hedge fund marketplace. Agecroft’s deep understanding of the industry has led the firm to be invited to share its insights and experience, with regular appearances on major business news networks, quotes in hundreds of hedge fund articles, and invitations to speak at over 120 industry conferences.
Each year Agecroft sets aside 300 complimentary tickets for qualified hedge fund investors to attend its annual conference, ‘Gaining the Edge’ – Hedge Fund Investor Leadership Summit. The event is considered one of the top in the industry, selling out each of the past three years with over 600 attendees. ‘Gaining the Edge’ features more than 50 of the world’s most influential investors in hedge funds where the objective is to have candid, robust commentary and debate about the various ways to use hedge funds to enhance the risk adjusted returns of a diversified portfolio.
One hundred per cent of the profits from Gaining the Edge are donated to non-profit organisations that benefit children. Agecroft and its partners are proudly two thirds of the way towards their goal of donating over a million dollars from these events.
Agecroft is proud of its designation as the leading hedge fund marketing firm and seeks to use its position to be an advocate for the industry and a voice to help educate the investment community of the role hedge funds can play in enhancing the risk adjusted returns of an institutional portfolio.
